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De Kooning, Easter Monday

Bird-scream bustle you

tangled arms and cars

pushing and pulsing with dreams

caught in your throats—gag—

wait—is that a dagger

I see before me? Could it be

the space between the subway

and the unending?


No one wants you

at this party.


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